The Plantin House in Antwerp holds a beautiful collection related to book history and history of printing. However, there are many more things there. Most of them have high historical and cultural value.

This album was published in 1925 by the city council of Antwerp to show the wide audience some additional treasures of the Museum Plantin-Moretus. It is in Dutch, but the descriptions are short enough, and most of them could be understood either with knowledge of the English language or with the use of automatic translation (the text in the book is available for copying after OCR.)

There are 36 illustrations in the book, including paintings, book covers and elements, drawings, and some illuminated initials from the collection of the Museum.

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Stepan is the owner and editor of iBookBinding.com since August 2015. He has been a bookbinder since 2006 and has taught hundreds of students since 2014. Recently Stepan spends more time crafting and 3d-printing bookbinding tools than making books.

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